Professor Katen gave us a really interesting presentation on Dec. 5th. He first explain his position and the theoretical framework for the study. He spoke for the archive thinkers that we should see the deep meaning behind places, and he…
Category: Research Topics in LAR
Design For Sustainable Behavior
I am really interested in the presentation by Danya on Dec. 3rd. Her research purpose is “Design for Sustainable Behavior in the Built Environment”. Design for sustainability is a hot trend in recent years and many related researches have been…
Community Morphological Design and Social Benefits
Professor Jacobson talked about a research she is processing on community design. Her research is a gather of community design, morphology and social science. She is trying to find out what extent the morphological characteristics could be manipulated to accommodate…
Fix the Gap Between the Material and Non-material World
Professor Bork’s Presentation is really profound and impressive. He tried to explain to us the trace of knowledge obtained. The situation today is that there is a gap between the body of knowledge and spiritual chase. Universities service two kinds…
Green & “Green”
Sustainable stormwater management was the topic that Aboulmueen talked about on Nov.12. He would like to highlight the importance of practice of green infrastructure in solving the environmental problems, and broaden horizon for the future research and design. One of…
Interesting Cases for Green Roof
Sinan gave an presentation on Nov. 7th, and it is a pity that I have not listen to that presentation by myself. I heard that his presentation is very interesting for trying to combine the three types of roof together:…
Designing Green Street For Multi-objectives
On Nov. 5th , Joowan Im gave us a presentation about green street. Her research mainly focus on the study of green street and explore whether it can promote the quality of life. Joowan saw green street as a kind…
Graduate Student Housing Program Competition
On Nov. 1st, we took part in the graduate student housing program competition. Adel, John and I made a great team. Our concept was making the site to be a learning, living community for people to get together and live…
A Lifetime for Research
This Thursday Professor Kim came and gave us a lecture about his research topics and his trace of research. The first and the most important thing I have learned that day is we should do what we really like. Moreover,…
A Critique Spirit
This Tuesday we talked about the exercise II we have done last weekend. I thought I had carefully read the whole article and try to fully understand it. However, I was still surprised as everyone brought up different disadvantages existing…